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Theatre as Performance
Objectives for this lesson:Students will examine:
characteristics of performance
types of performances
the nature of theatre as performance
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Performance:
Requires an audience a group of individuals gathered together at a certain time and place for no purpose other than to see the performance (though some may be doing other things: placing bets, writing reviews, wasting time, etc.) that is aware of itself as a group.
Audience:
Types of performances: movie, dance, tv, opera, music, salesmen, preachers (?), teachers, drill sergeants -- all are theatrical / theatre-like.
Kinds of arts: dance, music, movies, tv, opera, painting, architecture, graphic arts, literature, performance art -- theatre. Take a look at this chart comparing: Theatre vs. other arts
Kinds of Stages: Location can shape many aspects of
a performance. This presentation looks at different kinds of stages:
Stage Spaces
Important terms:
audience
performance
Types of Stages (Wilson & Goldfarb, Chapter 4):
proscenium (traditional)
arena (in-the-round)
thrust (three-quarter round)
environmental / found spaces
"black box"
Parts of the stage (also from From Wilson, Chapter 15)
house
rake (as in "raked stage")
orchestra
boxes
fly loft
wings
"fourth wall"
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